Böse Kinder gibt es nicht. Kaum auf der Welt, haben sie schon ein feines Gespür für Gut und Böse. In Langzeitstudien konnte Paul Bloom beobachten, wie die ganz Kleinen bereits Gefühle wie Mitleid, Schuld und Scham zeigen, gutes Verhalten...

"Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion" von Paul Bloom ist ein provokatives Buch, das die weit verbreitete Annahme hinterfragt, dass Empathie immer eine positive Kraft in der menschlichen Interaktion und Entscheidungsfindung...

A controversial call to arms by one of the world's leading psychologists, Against Empathy reveals how the natural impulse to share the feelings of others leads to cruel and irrational behavior on both the world stage and at home. With...

Paul Bloom is Professor of Psychology at Yale University. He is an internationally recognised expert on the psychology of language, social reasoning, morality and art. His previous books include Just Babies and How Pleasure Works, and he...

Subtitled, "Why We Like What We Like". Explores the science behind desire, attraction and tastes. 'This book is not just a pleasure, but a revelation,' Daniel Gilbert

Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion von Bloom, Paul

“This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic...

?This book will challenge you to rethink your vision of a good life. With sharp insights and lucid prose, Paul Bloom makes a captivating case that pain and suffering are essential to happiness. It's an exhilarating antidote to toxic...

What if experiencing a good life involves more than just pleasure?Revealing the surprising roots of lasting happiness, pre-eminent psychologist Paul Bloom explains why suffering is an essential source of both pleasure and meaning in our...

A compelling and accessible new perspective on the modern science of psychology, based on one of Yale's most popular courses of all timeHow does the brain?a three-pound wrinkly mass?give rise to intelligence and conscious experience? Was...

Are you a human? Do you have a mind? Then this book is for you.Nothing is more familiar and yet less understood than the human mind. It defines the experience of being human, and yet its workings contain some of the deepest mysteries...

A leading cognitive scientist argues that a deep sense of good and evil is bred in the bone. From John Locke to Sigmund Freud, philosophers and psychologists have long believed that we begin life as blank moral slates. Many of us take...